Elana Levin

Letter to the Editor of the week

Why should the New York Times get all the fun? After all, if you're letter gets run in it, it will be read by one of the largest audiences around. Yesterday there were just a ton of right-on letter writers in the Times on topics like wiretaps or values like economic mobility in the past vs. today. Read them.

But today's the day to shout-out a letter writer whose words are printed in a local paper here in NYC.

Edward Ciaccio of Douglaston Queens, I salute you.

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King was what Bush is not

It was the height of hypocrisy for President George W. Bush to mention Coretta Scott King at the beginning of his recent State of the Union speech.

Devoting her life to nonviolent action for social justice, as did her husband, King fiercely opposed racism, ultra-materialism and war. True Christians, they both realized that these three evils objectify and dehumanize people - causing humans to be used, then discarded or destroyed in pursuit of greed and power.

In his actions, not his misleading words, Bush is the foremost anti-Christian exemplar of these three evils. His rich-bettering but poor-battering economic policies, shown by his repeated tax cuts for the wealthy and his shameful neglect of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, demonstrate his racism and allegiance to destructive materialism.

His eagerness to wage illegal, aggressive war on Iraq demonstrates his inhumanity, greed and war lust.

His longtime enthusiastic support for the racist death penalty, as well as Dick Cheney's notorious voting record as a congressman where he voted against instituting a holiday for Martin Luther King Jr., Head Start and the release of Nelson Mandela, are not so easily flushed down the memory hole by Bush's cleverly crafted words. The entire Bush administration's lies are exposed by its many hypocritical, murderous acts.

Edward Ciaccio

Douglaston

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Posted at 1:43 PM, Feb 09, 2006 in Civil Rights | Economic Opportunity | Media | activists
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